/legalindustry?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Legal Industry Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Sat, 17 May 2025 00:02:30 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2341639?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2341639 For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week. Fri, 16 May 2025 22:50:20 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2309233?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2309233 A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday questioned whether it could force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over confidential Volkswagen documents it obtained through a grand jury subpoena that were part of Jones Day's internal investigation into the automaker's 2015 emissions-cheating scandal. Fri, 16 May 2025 20:24:29 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2341509?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2341509 President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to pause a California federal judge's order temporarily halting agencies from implementing an executive order to plan reorganizations and reductions in force, claiming the lower court's decision has caused confusion and wasted taxpayer dollars. Fri, 16 May 2025 20:22:10 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2341324?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2341324 Telecommunications company Lumen has told the Colorado Supreme Court that attorneys still need to conduct their own "objectively reasonable inquiry" when borrowing claims from outside litigants, in the hopes of beating a shareholder suit that took allegations from other cases despite attorneys not speaking to the witnesses. Fri, 16 May 2025 17:04:38 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2341003?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2341003 An SEC enforcement officer has told business leaders to expect more empathy from the agency, as well as fewer outside compliance monitors. And an ousted ATF chief counsel is fighting back by co-founding a boutique law firm to defend federal workers in employment battles. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:54:23 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2341289?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2341289 Susman Godfrey LLP announced Friday that the firm has expanded a scholarship program for law students of color to a total of $100,000 — up from $70,000 the firm handed out last year — amid criticism from the Trump administration that the prizes constitute racial discrimination as the firm battles the government over an executive order targeting it. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:44:00 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2341411?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2341411 The American Arbitration Association monopolizes the market for consumer arbitration and is "an unfair forum where consumers lose" to corporate defendants, according to a proposed consumer class action filed in Arizona federal court. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:41:18 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2341241?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2341241 Hogan Lovells and the Fomby Law Firm lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that courts must weigh the full sequence of events — not just the instant a threat arises — when deciding if police used excessive force. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:41:15 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2341438?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2341438 A Houston firm asked the Fifth Circuit to reverse the U.S. Small Business Administration's "absurd" denial of its loan forgiveness under a COVID-19-era program, writing that a "good faith but mistaken answer" to an application question would have produced a different result under changed guidelines. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:09:09 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2340684?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2340684 Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. and Kanner & Pintaluga PA have filed separate motions in Texas federal court to dismiss a proposed class action accusing the two of conspiring to share auto crash victims' private information against state and federal law, with each arguing that the allegations, as the insurer put it, "make no sense." Fri, 16 May 2025 15:41:28 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2341204?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2341204 Jackson Walker LLP wants out of a fee suit brought by former client J.C. Penney, arguing that the bankrupt department store's wind-down debtors entered claims as a "leverage play and a money grab" after learning that a firm partner had engaged in a yearslong undisclosed relationship with a Texas bankruptcy judge. Fri, 16 May 2025 11:22:21 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2339525?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2339525 A recent settlement of claims against law firm Eckert Seamans for allegedly abetting a Ponzi scheme underscores the continuing threat of clients who seek to exploit their lawyers in perpetrating fraud, and the critical importance of preemptive measures to avoid these clients, say attorneys at Lockton Companies. Thu, 15 May 2025 23:35:31 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2341008?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2341008 U.S. Supreme Court justices conducted a searching inquiry Thursday regarding the Trump administration's quest to curtail sweeping injunctions against its agenda, sometimes sounding sympathetic but also wary of alternative remedies and the White House's willingness to accept any future courtroom losses. Thu, 15 May 2025 23:21:06 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2340559?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2340559 Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale have informed two D.C. federal judges that the government recently suspended some of their attorneys' security clearances, arguing that has thrown a wrench in the lawyers' ability to represent clients in cases and asking the courts to reverse the suspensions. Thu, 15 May 2025 20:54:07 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2340402?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2340402 A Latham & Watkins LLP associate representing Anthropic in the artificial intelligence company's copyright fight with music publishers said Thursday that she used Anthropic's own Claude.ai tool to help draft an expert's declaration that included an erroneous citation, but she argued the error was "an honest citation mistake and not a fabrication of authority." Thu, 15 May 2025 19:42:32 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2340889?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2340889 A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed eager Thursday to limit lower courts' use of universal injunctions generally, but several justices voiced concerns about the effect such a ruling would have on lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's executive order that aims to limit birthright citizenship. Thu, 15 May 2025 19:36:11 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2340197?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2340197 Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, raised concerns Thursday that the White House is not fully complying with the practice of giving both home state senators a de facto veto over nominees for U.S. attorney and district judgeships. Thu, 15 May 2025 17:02:00 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2315231?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2315231 Teaching business law to college students has rekindled my sense of purpose as a lawyer — I am more mindful of the importance of the rule of law and the benefits of our common law system, which helps me maintain a clearer perspective on work, says David Feldman at Feldman Legal Advisors. Thu, 15 May 2025 17:00:40 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2340869?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2340869 Georgia taxpayers could end up on the hook for President Donald Trump's legal expenses in his election interference case under a newly signed, Republican-backed state law that allows defendants to seek attorney fees when prosecutors are disqualified from their case. Thu, 15 May 2025 16:51:16 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2340403?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2340403 A New York state appellate panel has voiced doubts that a former judicial secretary's sex abuse lawsuit should have been dismissed, challenging the state court system's arguments that it didn't employ her and thus can't be held liable for any harms she suffered.